Enhancing building energy efficiency and thermal performance with PCM-Integrated brick walls: A comprehensive review

M Lachheb, Z Younsi, N Youssef, S Bouadila - Building and Environment, 2024‏ - Elsevier
In the last decades, energy demand in the building sector has increased significantly,
particularly for space cooling and heating. This increasing energy demand in buildings has …

A review on phase change material (PCM) for sustainable passive cooling in building envelopes

H Akeiber, P Nejat, MZA Majid, MA Wahid… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The most significant threat that mankind faces in the 21th century is global warming.
Buildings, which account for 40% of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas …

Effect of different dimensional carbon materials on the properties and application of phase change materials: A review

M Li, B Mu - Applied energy, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Energy storage plays a crucial role in saving energy and protecting the environment. The
research on phase change latent heat storage materials has been in the forefront of the …

A review of the composite phase change materials: Fabrication, characterization, mathematical modeling and application to performance enhancement

P Zhang, X **ao, ZW Ma - Applied Energy, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) are frequently and widely used in latent thermal energy
storage (LTES) system and thermal management (TM) system due to their large latent heats …

Optical and thermal performance of glazing units containing PCM in buildings: A review

D Li, Y Wu, B Wang, C Liu, M Arıcı - Construction and Building Materials, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Glazing units are important for providing passive solar gain and air ventilation in buildings,
but their thermal performance is very poor compared to other building components, which …

A review of novel thermal management systems for batteries

M Al‐Zareer, I Dincer, MA Rosen - International Journal of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the recent years, significant developments in the electric batteries have made them one of
the most promising storage technologies for electrical energy. Among the various …

Investigating the effect of distribution form of copper foam fins on the thermal performance improvement of latent thermal energy storage units

J Zou, X Meng - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Adding copper foam fins (CFF) could significantly enhance the heat exchange capacity of
vertical shell-and-tube latent thermal energy storage unit (LTESU), but the phase change …

A review on the fabrication methods for structurally stabilised composite phase change materials and their impacts on the properties of materials

Z Jiang, A Palacios, B Zou, Y Zhao, W Deng… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This article aims to provide a comprehensive review of the latest work on structurally
stabilised composite phase change materials (SSCPCMs) for thermal energy storage, with a …

Heat transfer enhancement of phase change composite material: Copper foam/paraffin

C Wang, T Lin, N Li, H Zheng - Renewable energy, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCM) can store heat during the phase change process. Because
foam metal is light-weight, has a large specific surface area and conducts heat well, we …

Photo-triggered hierarchical porous carbon-based composite phase-change materials with superior thermal energy conversion capacity

K Sun, Y Kou, Y Zhang, T Liu, Q Shi - ACS Sustainable Chemistry …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
The insensitivity of organic phase-change materials to light greatly limits the application of
solar-thermal conversion. In the present work, a novel self-sacrificing template method was …